There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top...

The Chinese government is resolutely against and will resolutely tackle the illegal immigrants problem, in whatever form.

There’s something disturbing about the notion that when you search for something the government is going to be looking over your shoulder.

Many of the patients from these communities are poor, have multiple medical problems requiring additional support, and depend on government assistance for survival. Teaching hospitals consistently step up to the plate to care for these...

We’re not cutting Medicaid. We’re reforming government.

If you think something is wrong in government, you’ve got to get it out in the open. If you can’t control the amount of money, we should at least know where it’s coming from.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

The government is satisfied that it is lawful for the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles, like anyone else, to marry by a civil ceremony in accordance with Part III of the Marriage Act...

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

It’s not, ‘We have a city to bid, now let’s go check in with the federal government,’

You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters – only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is...

greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.

Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery!...

He was an absolutist on protection of the press’ right to criticize government,

Governments from the top fail as often as those from the bottom; and every great failure brings a sad social reaction, thousands and millions of helpless men laying down their lives in the unhappy process....

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I know I’m not in government anymore. In fact I’m out of work.

It’s bad for the federal government to rely on a shrinking group of American to pay all the bills and exclude millions of people from paying their fair share or some share.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Whenever governments wanted to achieve some end, often involving population growth, they restricted access to birth control and/or criminalized birth control unless, of course, the population growth concerned the poor, in which case, contraception was...

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied

Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Governments should have no role in determining what is an appropriate religion or belief for an individual to hold. This is a matter of individual conscience.

The government and people of Iraq can with their voices seek a timetable for the exit of the occupiers, … Certainly, in the end the Americans and British will be forced by bitter experience to...

Obviously, when there’s a new government, we’ll need to reassess our positions, based on the formation of that government and the composition of the government.

If a government safety [inspection] is being carried out, they’re expected to follow that handbook, and if there are discrepancies, that’s not good and we’re not pleased about it.

This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, … This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use...

It’s hard to think of a government agency Schering-Plough wasn’t being investigated by.

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Bush is a big government president,

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, ‘the plane’s hitting,’ and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the...

Americans are self-reliant—on the government.

I want the government and the Bank of Japan to thoroughly discuss and then decide (when to scrap the quantitative easing policy).

Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in...

I don’t believe in the Constitution because I’m American, I’m American because I believe in the Constitution.

While the government deprives workers of wage hikes, it condones the weekly oil price hikes imposed by the Big Three and new oil players. How can the government expect workers to cope with the high...

Well, this is the federal government, and it has procedures that we go through.

The government cannot but judge extremely severely such criticisms, which are even more unacceptable coming from someone who holds an official position in another European Union country,

the Government is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for injuries to servicemen where injuries arise out of or are in the course of activity incident to service” (U.S. Supreme Court 1950). Federal...

I’m as efficient as a fish ant, I’m as mythical as a productive government employee, and I’m the kind of lover your mother would approve of. Ask her—she’ll tell you how good I am in...

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is!

It is the most important site because of the fact that it is very much the seat of the government.

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption,...

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance...